Question 1

True or False - \"\'Scalawags\" was the derogatory name given to native white Republicans in the South.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 2

True or False - Radical Republicans generally neglected the needs of black education in the South

Accepted Answer

False

Question 3

The Military Reconstruction Act:

Accepted Answer

Required new state constitutions in the South

Question 4

True or False - The Fourteenth Amendment recognized the validity of Confederate debts.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 5

Under Lincoln\'s plan for Reconstruction:

Accepted Answer

10 percent of the 1860 voters had to take an oath of allegiance to the Union

Question 6

The primary objective of the Ku Klux Klan was:

Accepted Answer

Oppressing blacks and white Republicans

Question 7

Most scalawags were white southerners who had:

Accepted Answer

Opposed secession

Question 8

The black codes enacted by southern legislatures:

Accepted Answer

Tried to restore key elements of slavery

Question 9

True or False - A number of conspirators were punished for the assassination of President Lincoln.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 10

True or False- After the House of Representatives impeached President Johnson, the Senate failed to convict him by just one vote.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 11

After the war, rumors swept the South that ex-slaves would receive:

Accepted Answer

Forty acres and a mule

Question 12

At the end of the Civil War, the newly freed slaves were given:

Accepted Answer

Medical and legal assistance from the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands

Question 13

True or False - During the war, the Republican-dominated Congress established a new Bank of the United States and sharply reduced tariffs.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 14

Most carpetbaggers were:

Accepted Answer

Union veterans

Question 15

True or False - The Fifteenth Amendment was ratified during the Civil War.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 16

The Fourteenth Amendment:

Accepted Answer

Guaranteed equal legal protection to all citizens

Question 17

The South\'s greatest monetary loss stemmed from:

Accepted Answer

Loss of its slaves

Question 18

Among its many tasks, the Freedmen\'s Bureau in the South:

Accepted Answer

Set up schools

Question 19

When, in late 1865, the former Confederate states sent a number of ex-Confederates to Congress, the Unionists in Congress:

Accepted Answer

Denied them their seats

Question 20

The Civil Rights Act of 1866:

Accepted Answer

Was passed over Johnson\'s veto

Question 21

A person who worked the owners land in return for supplies and a share of the crop was called a _______.

Accepted Answer

Sharecropper

Question 22

True or False - The crop-owe system allowed for merchants to furnish supplies in return for liens (or mortgages) on farmers\' crops.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 23

True or False - Ida B. Wells was an African-American activist who spoke out against lynching, helped found the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and promoted women\'s suffrage.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 24

\"Separate but equal\" southern social segregation was sometimes referred to as ______.

Accepted Answer

Jim Crow

Question 25

True or False - From 1880 to 1900 the number of cotton mills in the South grew.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 26

The opponents of southern redeemers called themselves the ______.

Accepted Answer

Bourbons

Question 27

True or False - The Supreme Court ruling on the case Plessy v. Ferguson helped establish the \"separate but equal\" policies in the South.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 28

What amendment gave all male citizens over 21 the right to vote?

Accepted Answer

15th

Question 29

Tuskegee Institute founder:

Accepted Answer

Booker T. Washington

Question 30

True or False - The sand-lot incident in San Francisco in 1877 led to animosity against Chinese immigrants.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 31

Who founded the company that eventually became AT&T (American Telephone and Telegraph Company)?

Accepted Answer

Alexander Graham Bell

Question 32

Who was the first to sell discounted goods through mail-order catalogs?

Accepted Answer

Montgomery Ward

Question 33

True or False - The number of inventions register at the U.S Patent Office remained fairly constant throughout the nineteenth century.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 34

The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 was provoked by:

Accepted Answer

Wage cuts that followed a depression

Question 35

A transcontinental railroad was NOT built before the Civil War because:

Accepted Answer

North-South sectional differences prevented Congress from selecting a route

Question 36

True or False - The Haymarket affair took place in St. Louis.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 37

The Knight of Labor:

Accepted Answer

Were not concerned with the color, creed, or sex of members

Question 38

True of False - By the 1880s, most states had outlawed child labor.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 39

Holding Companies:

Accepted Answer

Are firms that control the stock of other companies

Question 40

True or False - Neither the government nor the public received much benefit from the support given to railroad construction.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 41

By 1867, 90% of the Central Pacific workforce was:

Accepted Answer

Chinese

Question 42

The Molly Maguires:

Accepted Answer

Aimed to right the perceived wrongs against Irish coal workers

Question 43

The Socialist presidential candidate in 1912 was:

Accepted Answer

Eugene V. Debs

Question 44

Jay Gould was:

Accepted Answer

The most notorious of the railroad robber barons

Question 45

What industry was the first big business, the first magnet for the great financial markets, and the first industry to develop a large-scale management bureaucracy?

Accepted Answer

Railroads

Question 46

The first transcontinental railroad:

Accepted Answer

Was build by the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific Railroads

Question 47

True or False - American railroads received government support in the form of land grants, loans, and cash subsidies.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 48

True or False - Most Americans experienced a rising standard of living in the late nineteenth century.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 49

True or False - Theodore Roosevelt initiated more anti-trust suits than any president in history.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 50

The title of the novel that described the terrible conditions of the meatpacking industry was:

Accepted Answer

The Jungle

Question 51

The Adamson Act of 1916:

Accepted Answer

Established the eight-hour day for railroad workers

Question 52

True or False - The population election of senators required a constitutional amendment.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 53

In the progressive period:

Accepted Answer

Many groups -- blacks, the poor, the unorganized -- had little influence

Question 54

What describes the method used by most progressives to solve the problem of economic power and its abuses?

Accepted Answer

Regulate big business

Question 55

The Seventeenth Amendment:

Accepted Answer

Authorized the popular election of U.S. senators.

Question 56

Francis Willard lobbied:

Accepted Answer

For women to become ministers

Question 57

At the Triangle Shirtwaist Company in 1911:

Accepted Answer

Workers died as a result of a fire

Question 58

Jane Addams called the impulse to found settlement houses:

Accepted Answer

\"Christian humanitarianism\"

Question 59

The National Child Labor Committee pushed:

Accepted Answer

For laws banning the widespread employment of young children

Question 60

In 1917 a prohibition amendment to the Constitution:

Accepted Answer

Passed Congress, then went to the states for ratification

Question 61

What does WCTU stand for:

Accepted Answer

Women\'s Christian Temperance Union

Question 62

The Hepburn Act of 1906:

Accepted Answer

Authorized the Interstate Commerce Commission to set maximum rates for railroads

Question 63

The muckrakers saw their primary objective as:

Accepted Answer

Exposing social problems to the public

Question 64

Frederick W. Taylor:

Accepted Answer

was an efficiency expert

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